{"id":16492,"date":"2012-12-07T22:46:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-08T04:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=16492"},"modified":"2012-12-07T22:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-08T04:46:50","slug":"charlie-crist-becomes-a-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/12\/charlie-crist-becomes-a-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Crist Becomes a Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16493\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/charlie-crist-becomes-a-democrat\/charlie-crist-poker\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16493\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16493\" title=\"charlie-crist-poker\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/charlie-crist-poker-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/charlie-crist-poker-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/charlie-crist-poker.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who was elected as the state&#8217;s chief executive as a Republican and then ran for the U.S. Senate as an independent, announced on Twitter on Friday night that he&#8217;s switching to the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Crist sent out a Tweet that said, &#8220;Proud and honored to join the Democratic Party in the home of President (at) Barack Obama!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tweet included a photo of a smiling Crist and an unidentified woman as he held up a Florida voter registration application. <em>The Tampa Bay Times<\/em> reports that Crist signed the papers changing his affiliation from independent to Democrat at a Christmas reception at The White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who was elected as the state&#8217;s chief executive as a Republican and then ran for the U.S. Senate as an independent, announced on Twitter on&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}